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...political pressures - notably the Bush administration?s decision to sharply limit the availability of human embryonic stem cells. Still, he cited a number of promising recent experiments in which stem cells were used to repair damaged tissue in animals; for example, he showed a video of a partially paralyzed rat that appears to miraculously regain mobility after an implantation of neural stem cells. But Gearhart emphasized that lab animals are not humans and predicted that it would take from seven to ten years before such treatments would be available for treatment of such conditions as stroke damage, Parkinson?s disease...
...their three children. "I was so young I don't remember specific productions as much as I remember the spectacle of it and the pageantry of it and how it was such an amazing and beautiful theater," he says. The experience helped turn Spacey into a self-described "theater rat," and one of his priorities at the Old Vic will be to encourage attendance among young people. Iceman's acclaimed 1998 run, in both New York and London, featured subsidized student tickets that included some of the choicest seats in the house. "When you have a youthful, eager, excited audience...
...course, for the best results, you'll also want to increase your level of physical activity. But you don't have to become a gym rat. (Take your pick of walking, dancing, ice skating, gardening, yoga, Tai Chi or strength training, to name a few options.) The point is, by cutting back on calorie-dense foods and moving around a bit, you'll be tipping the scales back in your favor...
...recognized by either Northern or even Central Jersey. The rest of Jersey thinks that all we do [in the south] is farm and not attend college. I was spawned in Central Jersey, though. And my parents first came to Northern Jersey. I’m a turnpike rat, I suppose...
...troops were trying to find him. In late 2001 combined U.S. military and intelligence operatives in Afghanistan ran the hunt out of Bagram air base. Led by an Army commander, teams patrolled the "rat trail," the countless smugglers' paths that loop into the mountainous tribal zones of western Pakistan, where they had picked up a pattern of phone communication between bin Laden and friends. While the teams never got close to him, most intelligence analysts think bin Laden is still holed up in Pakistan's treacherous border zone, out among the clannish tribes who barely recognize national control, or tucked...